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单词 swaddle
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
swad•dle /ˈswɑdəl/USA pronunciation   v. [+ object], -dled, -dling. 
  1. to bind (a newborn infant) with clothes to prevent free movement.
  2. to wrap (anything) round with bandages.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
swad•dle  (swodl),USA pronunciation v., -dled, -dling, n. 
v.t. 
  1. to bind (an infant, esp. a newborn infant) with long, narrow strips of cloth to prevent free movement;
    wrap tightly with clothes.
  2. to wrap (anything) round with bandages.

n. 
  1. a long, narrow strip of cloth used for swaddling or bandaging.
  • 1375–1425; late Middle English, in suadiling (gerund, gerundive); akin by gradation to Middle English swethel (noun, nominal), Old English; see swathe, -le

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
swaddle /ˈswɒdəl/ vb (transitive)
  1. to wind a bandage round
  2. to wrap (a baby) in swaddling clothes
  3. to restrain as if by wrapping with bandages; smother
n
  1. chiefly US swaddling clothes
Etymology: 15th Century: from Old English swæthel swaddling clothes; related to swathian to swathe
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